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SUSE: 2016:0715-1 Important: Flash-Player Code Execution Threats

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2016
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Urgent SUSE patch release addresses 23 security flaws in flash-player, focusing on issues like buffer overflow and memory leak.
An update that fixes 23 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

Adobe flash-player was updated to 11.2.202.577 to fix the following list of security issues (bsc#970547): These updates resolve integer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-0963, CVE-2016-0993, CVE-2016-1010). These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-0987, CVE-2016-0988, CVE-2016-0990, CVE-2016-0991, CVE-2016-0994, CVE-2016-0995, CVE-2016-0996, CVE-2016-0997, CVE-2016-0998, CVE-2016-0999, CVE-2016-1000). These updates resolve a heap overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-1001). These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-0960, CVE-2016-0961, CVE-2016-0962,

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory corruption important integer overflow flash-player SUSE Linux Desktop SUSE Linux Workstation

References

#970547

Cross- CVE-2016-0960 CVE-2016-0961 CVE-2016-0962

CVE-2016-0963 CVE-2016-0986 CVE-2016-0987

CVE-2016-0988 CVE-2016-0989 CVE-2016-0990

CVE-2016-0991 CVE-2016-0992 CVE-2016-0993

CVE-2016-0994 CVE-2016-0995 CVE-2016-0996

CVE-2016-0997 CVE-2016-0998 CVE-2016-0999

CVE-2016-1000 CVE-2016-1001 CVE-2016-1002

CVE-2016-1005 CVE-2016-1010

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0960.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0961.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0962.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0963.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0715-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory corruption important integer overflow flash-player SUSE Linux Desktop SUSE Linux Workstation

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